Road to Recovery 2010
HAZARD –Better utilization of the state’s prescription drug monitoring program, increasing education about the
disease of addiction, and providing greater collaboration and communication on available resources were all short-term priorities identified by medical professionals attending an Operation UNITE symposium held Saturday.
The symposium brought together more than 300 physicians, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, social workers, substance abuse counselors, [...]
WestCare residents provide more than 4,100 hours of volunteer service to community, youth in 2009
PIKEVILLE – Residents at WestCare Kentucky’s facilities in Pike County provided 3,050 volunteer man-hours of service for community service projects and in support of Operation UNITE’s youth initiative during 2009.
Clients of the residential substance abuse treatment facility in Ashcamp and the [...]
HAZARD –Kentucky River Properties, LLC, has pledged $500,000 to the Operation UNITE Foundation over the next five years to provide substance abuse treatment.
The first $100,000 installment was formally presented to UNITE Director Karen Engle and Fifth District Congressman Harold “Hal” Rogers during a dinner held at Hazard Community and Technical College on January 25.
“We are [...]
MANCHESTER – Fourteen Clay County residents have been identified for arrest following a 10-month undercover investigation by Operation UNITE centering on the illegal sale and distribution of the drug Suboxone.
In conjunction with the Manchester Police Department, which also had drug-related warrants to serve, UNITE detectives set out to arrest approximately 20 suspects early Tuesday morning. [...]
Sixteen elementary schools in eight Eastern Kentucky counties are receiving additional assistance during the 2009-10 school year through Operation UNITE’s Service Corps.
Provided in conjunction with the state AmeriCorps program, UNITE Service Corps members teach the “Too Good for Drugs” curriculum, tutor students in mathematics, and help set up and coordinate an anti-drug UNITE Club at [...]
Two charged with methamphetamine production
ANNVILLE – Two Jackson County women were arrested Friday, October 23, after materials found to make methamphetamine were discovered at their residence.
Operation UNITE detectives charged 32-year-old Tina Young (also known as Tina Adkins) and 24-year-old Misty D. Stepp, both of the Annville Car Wash Apartments on Highway 30, with one count [...]
SOMERSET – Nearly 2,300 students and 200 adults from 43 schools in 12 counties participated in Operation UNITE’s “Piercing the Darkness of Drugs” Youth Summit held Wednesday, Sept. 16, in Somerset.
The summit featured exciting and motivational programs for youth in grades 4-12, followed by an assembly program where regional UNITE Club of the Year winners [...]
Wolfe County High School has been named the 2009 UNITE High School Club of the Year for the Kentucky River region. The UNITE Excellence Award was presented during the first of three regional Operation UNITE “Piercing the Darkness of Drugs” Youth Summits held Tuesday, Sept. 15, in Hazard. Also honored Tuesday was Carr Creek Elementary School in [...]
HAZARD – An undercover drug investigation by Operation UNITE resulted in the arrest of a local resident Monday afternoon.
Glen Tyler, age 68, of Broadway in Hazard, was charged with one count each of first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance and third-degree trafficking in a controlled substance.
Acting upon several complaints of Tyler’s drug dealing, UNITE detectives [...]